TWB ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Janet Conway Book Launch Wed Sept 29
2. Rauda Morcos Poetry Reading Thurs Sept 30, followed by a fundraiser
3. 10% Venture for October: Planet in Focus
4. Cuban Literature Workshop Wed, Oct 20 @ TWB

Community Announcements
5. Language Lounge Sept 19
6. RAW Returns. Ticket Giveaway Contest!
7. Women Political Prisoners: Memoirs and Resistance
8. Women, Media and the New Global Order: Lecture

1. The Toronto Women’s Bookstore and Fernwood Books are pleased to present:

Identity, Place, Knowledge: Social Movements Contesting Globalization By Janet Conway

Wedneday, September 29 at 7pm
sPaHa Restaurant
66 Harbord St (North East corner or Spadina and Harbord)
Free admission
Wheelchair accessible
Free canapés
All are welcome to attend

2. The Toronto Women's Bookstore is pleased to host an event with Palestinian activist and poet Rauda Morcos.

Rauda Morcos is coordinator of Aswat/Voices, a pioneer group of young Palestinian gay women who have organized themselves during this past year. Rauda will be in Toronto on Thursday, September 30th, 2004. There will be a reading of her poetry - in Arabic and English -at the Bookstore, followed by a fundraising reception. Proceeds go to Aswat.

Poetry Reading: Rauda Morcos
Thursday, September 30, 8 pm
Toronto Women's Bookstore
73 Harbord Street
Free admission

followed by

Aswat Fundraiser
Cocktail Reception
9:30 pm @ 93 Harbord
$30 - $50 sliding scale

Advance tickets available at TWB
Charitable Receipts will be issued for all ticket purchases and additional donations.

The Reception will include a talk by Rauda Marcos about Aswat and ambient experimental electronic grooves by John Kameel Farah and Reena Katz. Appetizers served. Cash bar.

Co-sponsored by Salaam: Queer Muslim Community, Inside/Out Film Festival, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, Coalition for a Just Peace in Palestine and Israel, Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation, Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies (U of T), Women's Centre at U of T, Canadian Arab Federation

3. Come to TWB and shop on Friday, October 29 and 10% of the days’ sales will go to Planet in Focus.

Planet in Focus is Canada's only annual environmental film and video festival. PIF aims to promote the use of film and video as catalysts for public awareness, discussion, and appropriate action on the ecological and social health of the planet. This year’s festival runs from September 28 - October 3. The festival will feature 81 films from around the world, a variety of genres as well as panel discussions, workshops, an eco fair, multi-faith celebration, organic pancake brunch, a schools and a children's programme. For more info visit: www.planetinfocus.org

4. Cuban Feminist Literature with instructor: Clelia Rodriguez

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004 from 6:30 pm to 9 pm
At Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord St.

Clelia Rodriguez will speak about female writers in Cuba and discuss her research on Cuban Feminist writers focussing on issues such as sensuality and sexuality.

She will explore the importance of the Cuban Revolution in order to clarify the nature of the relationship between Cuban literature and women’s bodies. Feminist Literature in Cuba has helped to develop a socialist project as an imperative factor that has contributed to important changes for the condition of women’s lives in Cuba.

This workshop is open to anyone who speaks Spanish and is interested in Cuban Feminist Literature.

Some of the readings are in Spanish only and will not be translated into English. A reading package will be available to be picked up by all registered participants the week of September 27, 2004. All participants are required to read the package prior to the workshop.

Some authors that are included in the reading package are: Dulce María Loynaz, Reina María Rodríguez, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Zoe Valdes and others

Wednesday October 20, 2004 from 6:30 pm - 9 pm.
Fee:$10 (No Refunds) Enrollment limited to 15 participants
Pre-registration is required. Wheelchair accessible.

Community Announcement
5. Just a friendly reminder about the Language Lounge
An evening of cool spoken word and hot music curated and hosted by Sandra Alland
Where: Mitzi’s Sister 1554 Queen St. West
When: Sunday, September 19th 8:30 pm
How much: Pay What You Can at the door
Language Lounge is an Artscape Queen West Art Crawl event.
For more information www.torontoartscape.on.ca/qwac

6. RAW Returns

A night of music, beats, images, word, song and thunder with Raging Asian Women (RAW) Taiko Drummers and friends (Maewon, The Cliks, Pomegranate, LAL, Vicky Manuel-Paul & missruckus).

Thursday, October 7th, 2004 at Tequila Lounge
794 Bathurst St. at Bloor (upstairs)
Doors at 9pm, show starts promptly at 9:30pm

$7-$10 sliding scale in advance / $12 at the door
Advance tickets available at Toronto Women's Bookstore
73 Harbord St. at Spadina

To win a pair of tickets be the 7th and 17th correct answer (by email) to this skill-testing query: Name one TWB staff member who will be performing at the RAW Returns evening. Hint: There are multiple correct answers! Contest closes Sunday September 19th at midnight. Winners will be notified by email. Only one entry per email address please! And of course spelling counts!

7. Women Political Prisoners: Memoirs and Resistance
With speakers:

>Haifa Zangana - Iraqi-born artist, activist and
>George Sawa: Sufi and Classical Arabic Music
>Hassan Pooya: What is Khavaran? (screening): Kanoon-e-Khavaran is a Toronto-based advcacy group
>Spirit Synott and Rachel Gorman: The Ghost: A dance performance
>Shahrzad Arshadi and Amin Zarghami: Red Names: A short video celebrating the legacy of thousands of women activists who lost their lives in Iran between 1979 and 1999.
>Rachel Gorman: Women Political Prisoners in the Middle East: An Art-based Project
>Homa Alizadeh: Classical and Protest Songs from Iran
>Aram Bayat: Dancing for Social Change

Sunday, September 26th, 2004, 7:00-11:00pm
Innis College Town Hall
2 Sussex Avenue
University of Toronto
For More Information Contact
Dr. Shahrzad Mojab
Ph: 416-946-5383
email: smojab@oise.utoronto.ca

8. Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies, University of Toronto & MATCH International present:

"Women, Media and the New Global Order"
Public Lectures from: Judith Wedderburn & Urvashi Butalia with Himani Bannerji as Moderator

Tuesday, September 21, 2004, 6:00 pm
William Doo Auditorium
45 Willcocks Street
University of Toronto

Judith Wedderburn is a Founding Member of the Administrative Committee of Women's Media Watch (Jamaica), an organization working to improve the gender balance and representation in media output in Jamaica.

Urvashi Butalia has been very active in work relating to the women's movement, oral history, conflict and the media for over 25 years. She co-founded Kali for Women - India's first and only feminist publishing house.

For more info: 416-946-5800